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Stringed music instruments exceed 200, many created in ancient times.
They include Cello, Chanzy, Guitar, Gusle, Harp, Hurdy Gurdy, Viola as well as the Violin.
No interest in your coarse and ignorant vulgarity; as such, do NOT address me again.
The violin, viola, and cello were first made in the early 16th century, in Italy. The earliest evidence for their existence is in paintings by Gaudenzio Ferrari from the 1530s, though Ferrari's instruments had only three strings. The first clear record of a violin-like instrument comes from paintings by Gaudenzio Ferrari. In his Madonna of the Orange Tree, painted 1530, a cherub is seen playing a bowed instrument which clearly has the hallmarks of violins.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_violin#:~:text=The%20violin%2C%20viola%2C%20and%20cello,instruments%20had%20only%20three%20strings.The first guitars are thought to have originated during the 15th Century in Spain. These had four ‘courses’ of strings or sets of two strings tuned to the same note to give the guitar resonance. However the Lute was consistently favored by the public over the Guitar until the end of the 15th Century.
https://acousticmusic.org/research/history/timeline-of-musical-styles-guitar-history/#:~:text=The%20first%20guitars%20are%20thought,end%20of%20the%2015th%20Century.Gusle There is no consensus about the origin of the instrument.[1] 6th-century Byzantine Greek historian Theophylact Simocatta (fl. c. 630) wrote about "small lyres" brought by the Slavs who settled the Balkans; some researchers believe that this might have been the gusle.[1] Others, such as F. Sachs, believe that the gusle has an Oriental origin, brought to Europe in the 10th century via the Islamic cultural wave
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gusle#:~:text=Arab%20travellers%20report%20evidence%20that,only%20in%20the%2015th%20century.The hurdy-gurdy was first mentioned in the 10th century as the organistrum. It was then a church instrument played by two men, one fingering the keys, one turning the wheel. Secular, one-man forms, called symphonia, appeared in the 13th century.
https://www.britannica.com/art/hurdy-gurdyThe history of the viola is closely linked to the development of the other instruments in the violin family, which were first made in northern Italy between 1530 and 1550. It may be assumed that the alto, tenor and bass versions emerged soon after the soprano instrument.
https://www.vsl.co.at/en/Viola/History#:~:text=The%20history%20of%20the%20viola,soon%20after%20the%20soprano%20instrument.I will grant you the Harp/ lyre since it is mentioned in the Bible during the time of Saul and David.
Now You can try and refute my claims with actual evidence or if you had any integrity you would humbly apologize and say "hey that Verga is one smart Dude, I need to listen to him a whole lot more often." But I am not going to hold my breath given several of our past encounters.
